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Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages -- easily! Distribute is a friendly fork of the setuptools utility. The Setuptools maintainer, Phillip J. Eby is not responsible of any aspect of this fork.If you install Distribute and want to switch back for any reason to Setuptools, get to the Uninstallation instructions section.About the installation processThe Distribute installer modifies your installation by de-activating an existing installation of Setuptools in a bootstrap process. This process has been tested in various installation schemes and contexts but in case of a bug during this process your Python installation might be left in a broken state. Since all modified files and directories are copied before the installation, you will be able to get back to a normal state by reading the instructions in the Uninstallation instructions section.In any case, it is recommended to save you site-packages directory before you start the installation of Distribute.Installation InstructionsDistribute is only released as a source distribution.It can be installed using easy_install or pip, with the source tarball, with the eggs distribution, or using the distribute_setup.py script provided online.distribute_setup.py is the simplest and preferred way on all systems.distribute_setup.pyDownload distribute_setup.py and execute it, using the Python interpreter of your choice.If your shell has the wget program you can do:wget http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup.pypython distribute_setup.pyeasy_install or pipRun easy_install or pip:easy_install Distributepip install DistributeSource installationDownload the source tarball, and uncompress it, then run the install command:wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.1.tar.gztar -xzvf distribute-0.6.1.tar.gzcd distribute-0.6python setup.py installUninstallation InstructionsLike other distutils-based distributions, Distribute doesn't provide an uninstaller yet. It's all manual !Distribute is installed in three steps:1- it gets out of the way an existing installation of Setuptools 2- it installs a fake setuptools installation 3- it installs distributeDistribute can be removed like this: * run easy_install -m Distribute. This will remove the Distribute reference from easy-install.pth or edit the file and remove it yourself. * remove the distribute*.egg file located in your site-packages directory * remove the setuptools.pth file located in you site-packages directory * remove the easy_install script located in you sys.prefix/bin directory * remove the setuptools*.egg directory located in your site-packages directory if any.If you want to get back to setuptools: * reinstall setuptools using its instruction.Last: * remove the .OLD. directory located in your site-packages directory if any, once you have checked everything was working correctly again. Requirements: · Python What's New in This Release: · Reverted change made for the DistributionNotFound exception because zc.buildout uses the exception message to get the name of the distribution.

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